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  • Spider Breakfast

    The season of giant orb-weaving spiders comes again to Poughkeepsie, with this one stretching a web across the decorative grasses bracketing the (unused) front door:

    Orb spider - at rest
    Orb spider – at rest

    While I screwed around with the camera, she dashed off to one side and began wrapping a package:

    Orb spider - wrapping insect
    Orb spider – wrapping insect

    Her spinnerets release a torrent of silk during that operation!

    Dragging it back to the middle of her orb, she settled down for breakfast.

    Orb spider - ready for breakfast
    Orb spider – ready for breakfast

    So did I…

    Hand held with the Sony DSC-H5, facing westward in dawn light, using the flash to bring the image up out of the mud. A touch of unsharp mask and some contrast stretching; nothing too drastic.